Typewriting machine



1,448,007. J. J. SHEEHY. TYPEWRITING MACHINE.

man JUNE 12, 1920.

Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

P T v 11? JEREMIAH J. SHEEHY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB TO UI\'I'DFRNVOOD TYPEWRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

TYPEWBITING MACHINE.

Application filed June 12, 1920. Serial No. 388,451.

To all w 700m it may concern Be it known that I, J EBEMIAH J. SHEEHY,

a citizen of the United States, residing in- New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typewriting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

chines, and is herein disclosed as an improvement on my co-pending application, Serial No. 37 6,905, filed April 27, 1920 (now Patent No. 1,380,931, dated June 7, 1921), wherein is shown a machine of the general type disclosed in the patent to Wernery and Smith, No. 1,132,055, dated March 16, 1915. Said application includes a card gage which is dapted to gage a card or other worksheet to be placed between the platen and the inner work-sheet web customarily used in such machines.

According to the present invention, the Underwood continuous billing machine, one

form of which is shown in said patent to.

Wernery and Smith, maybe provided with a card magazine or holder which is adapted to stand above the usual work-sheets, so that it is in a convenient position to deliver a card to a suitable card gage, such as is shown in my aforesaid application. f

In the form of the invention herein disclosed, thecard holder or card receptacle may be fast to the card gage, and may be movable therewith, so that it normally lies substantially horizontally, resting upon the usual carbon clip bar above the upmost work-sheet, and may be adapted tobe lifted together with the gage out of thepath of the carbon paper carriage by the cam which is used for that purpose in my application aforesaid. Such arecep tacle greatly simplifies the operations which the typist is obliged to perform in inserting the desired card, since instead of having to pick up the card, to carry the card clear of the mechanism, and then to insert it in the gage, the typist, according to the present invention, may merely pull forward the topmost card out of the receptacle in which it is held by any suitable detaining means, and, without actually moving it sideways or lifting it, may slip it along'the edge of the receptacle, and thus guide it to its proper position against the side member of the card gage, and gage its bottom against the rear member thereof.

When the supply of cards in the receptacle becomes exhausted-the typist inserts a new package of cards," and usually finds 1t simpler to insert a package of cards than it is to insert'a single card, owing to the greater stiffness of'the package. The card receptacle may be formed as anintegral extension of the stamped sheet-metal plate from which the cardgage proper is formed. Owing to the weight to be carried, the com bined device may be supported at both margins of the typewriter carriage or carriage extension, thus gaining greatly increased stiffness of the light parts at a negligibleincrease of weight.

Wherea "card receptacle is constructed in this manner with a smooth nickle-plated bottom, it is found that the bottom of the card receptacle may normally rest upon the carbon clip bar or carbon sheet, the smooth ness of the bottom surface of the receptacle reducing'the friction of the web thereon to a negligible quantity.

Other'features and inafter appear,

In the accompanying drawing, which shows a fragmentary perspective View of an Underwood continuous billing machine of the class described, with thepresent invention applied thereto, fan-folded or other work-sheet webs 1, 2, and 3, aredrawn forward with a platen 4 in its displaced position, so that they extend nearly straight foradvantages will hereward from the usual rear cross-bar 5 of the" In the form of the invention herein illustrated, the webs, 1, 2, and 3 are comparatively narrow webs adapted to be used in a considerably wider typewriting machine, and: are threaded between the detachable carbon clip bars 6 and 7 of the usual car; bon paper carriage 8, which is reciprooable upon rails 9, the'latter, together with the, cross-bar 5, forming the main body of the extension upon which the carbon paper car riage 8 travels. Owing to the'fact that the webs are narrow, the carbon clip'ba-r 6 is a short bar if the webs are fan-folded, as herein illustrated. The carbon sheets supported upon the clip bars 6 and 7 extend between the webs 1, 2, and 3, with the result that the carbonsheets travel forward with the work-sheets or webs 1,2, and 3, while the latter are advanced during the typing operation. When the typing operation is finished, the typist usually seizes the webs, 1, 2, and 3, after having thrown the platen to the displaced position shown in the figure, and then draws the webs along to gage them against the usual leading edge gage 10, which is adjustable along the usual support 11. Then the typist usually pushes the carbon paper carriage 8 rearwardly by pressing rearwardly the usual handle 12, which is vmounted upon said carriage, thus carryingrearwardly'the carbon sheets upon their clip bars 6 and 7. The typist usually next throws the platen back to its normal typing position, andv draws the gaged workwebs against the usual knife, not shown. The work-sheet webs may be held in their proper lateral. positions by side gages 13 and 14, commonly found: in the Underwood continuous billing machine,

According to the present invention, there may be supported above the webs 1, 2, and 3, and above the extension which includes the rails 9, a card or other work-sheet holder 15, which has a rear upturned edge 16 to keep the cards from slipping out rearwardly, and a turned-up right-hand side edge 17, which serves to hold the cards and to roughly gage them when being inserted into the holder 15. The holder 15 comprises a floor 18, on which the cards rest, and against which they may be pressed-by a long resilient flat spring 19, which may be in the form of a resilient tongue riveted to the rear edge 16, and having a turned-upfront end to slip over the cards when they are being inserted. The spring 19 serves to hold the cards against being jarred out of. place during the operation of typewriting.

In the form of the invention herein disclosed, the floor 18 is formed as an upper step of the plate 22, turned up at. 20, and then rearwardly at 21, thus forming a cardgaging device, the upturnedportion 23 forming a bottom edge gage, while the right-hand upturned edge 25 forms a right-hand edge gage.

The plate 22 is provided with a forwardlyextending arm 26, which is connected by an offset lug 27 to the plate 22,and is held by a pivot pin or screw 28 to an upstanding bracket 29, commonly found in saidcontinuous billing machines, fast upon the usual cross bar 30. The plate 22 is supported at its opposite end by an arm 31, extending rightwardly from the turned-up edge 25, and then bent forwardly to form a supporting arm 32, which is connected by a removable shouldered screw pivot 36 to the right-hand bracket 37, corresponding to the left-hand bracket 29, described above. Thus, the gage formed by the plate 22 and its turned-up portion is pivotally and detachably, but securely, held upon the extension of the typewriter carriage, and forms an adequate yet light support for the card holder 15, the gage being largely cut away at its centre at 38 for lightness.

In order to give rigidity to the combined gage and holder, there is provided a con necting plate 39, which is suitably held by rivets to the turned-up edges 17 and 25, thus forming a rigid connection between them, and preventing any yielding at the angles 20 Or 21. In the ordinary operation of using the machine, the typist, afterhaving pushed rearwardly the carbon paper carriage 8, as above described, pulls forwardly a card 40, which has been previously placed as one of apackage. of cards in the holder 15, and, guiding it. to. some. extent by the edge 17, slips the card down onto the plate 22, gaging its bottom end against the turned-up edge 23, and-itsright-hand edge against the turned-up edge 25, thus accurately. gaging the card with reference to the webs, which, as pointed out above, have been aligned or gaged by. thev side gages 13 and 1 1, and by the leading edge gage 10 and other gages which, are frequently found on such machines.

The card is thus gaged before throwing back the platen 4 to ty ing position from its displaced: position. Then the typist swings the platen back to typing position with the result that the gaged card is seized between the platen and the usual feed-rolls, and typing proceeds. Any previously gaged card is removed at the time the webs are severed by drawing them against the knife, or earlier in the operations, dependent upon the position of the gaged card relative to the webs. It is customary to have the card of such a length that when the webs are gaged against the gage 10, the cardxis carried clear of the usual knife.

In order to enable the card holder 15 to normall have its floor 18 either fiat, or preferably slanting to the rear as herein shown, the bottom of the floor 18 may rest upon the upper clip bar 41, or upon the carbon sheet which is carried outside of the web upon said third. carbon clip bar 11, which may be a clip bar ofthe ordinary kind.

It has been found that if the holder is provided with the ordinary nickel-plated finish used in typewritin-gmachines, it slips over the carbon sheet or the web with suf ficient ease to create no interference with the easy operation of the machine.

In order to lift the gage floor 22 out of the way of the carbon paper carriage 8, as the latter advances in the typingand line-spacing operations, the floor 22 is provided with a downwardlyeprojecting cam plate 12, which is adapted to be struck by the advancing carbon paper carriage, and lift the gage plate 22 and the card holder 15 clear of the carbon paper carriage, and to allow it to fall again when the carriage is pushed rearwardly. The cam plate 42 may comprise a turned-over upper edge, held to the bottom of the plate 22 by suitable rivets. To enable the cards to be seized as easily as possible by the typist, the rear end 16 of the plate or floor 18 may slant forwardly, thus offsetting the superposed cards from each other at their front,and enabling the typist to readily seize the top one when it is desired to draw it onto the gage plate 22.

Variations may be resorted to Within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used Without others.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim:

1. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a traveling carriage and an extension thereof, .of a platen, a carbon-paper carriage reciprocable on the extension, a card receptacle above the extension arranged to hold a plurality of cards, and a card age onto which cards may be drawn from the receptacle to gage them for delivery to the platen.

2. In a typewriting'machine, the combination with a traveling carriage and an extension thereof, of a platen, a carbon-papercarriage reciprocable upon the extension, a card-gage pivoted to the extension for gaging a card, a card-receptacle forming an extension of said gage, means for holding cards in said receptacle, and means for moving the receptacle clear of the path of the carbon-paper-carriage.

3. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a traveling carriage and an extension thereof, of a displaceable platen car ried in the carriage, a carbon-paper-carriage reciprocable upon the extension, a card-gage pivoted upon the extension near the platen and arranged to support a card substantially horizontally beneath the platen in its displaced position, said gage formed as a sheetmetal stamping, a card-receptacle integral therewith and forming a rear extension of the stamping, said receptacle having an open side and an open end adjacent the gage and having a turned-up side and'a'turned-up rear end, and means whereby the advance of the carbon-paper-carriage automatically carries the card-gage clear of it.

i. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a traveling carriage and an extension thereof, of a displaceable plate-n carried in the carriage, a carbon-paper-carriage reciprocable upon the extension. a card-gagepivoted upon the extension near the platen and arranged to support a card substantially horizontally beneath the platen in its displaced position, said metal stamping, a card-receptacle integral gage formed as a sheettherewith and forming a rearward extension of the stamping, said gage and receptacle having an open side and each also having a turned-up edge at the opposite side for gaging purposes, a step between the receptacle and the gage forming a bottom-edge gage for the card, and means whereby the advance of the carbon-paper-carriage lifts the card-gage clear of its path.

5. In a typewriting machine, the combination with a traveling carriage and an extension thereof, of a displaceable platen, a carbon-paper-carriage reciprocable upon the extension, a card-gage supported upon the extension and arranged to deliver cards so they come beneath the platen in its displaced position, a card-receptacle forming a part of the gage structure, and means arranged to support the gage and receptacle clear of the carbon-paper-carriage.

6. In a typewritingmachine, the combination with a traveling carriage and an extension thereof, of a displaceable platen, a carbon-paper-carriage reciprocable on the extension, a card-gage arranged to deliver a card beneath the platen in its displaced position, an extension of said gage forming a card-receptacle, a step between the gage and receptacle forming a bottom-edge gage, said card-gage and receptacle each having an open side for the reception of cards, means for holding the cards in the receptacle, and means to hold the card-gage clear of the carbon-paper-carriage.

7. In a typewriting machine, in combination, a traveling carriage, a rearward extension thereof, a platen mounted in said carriage, a transfer-sheet-carriage reciprocable upon the extension, a card-receptacle above the extension and open at its forward end, a card-gage at the forward end of said cardreceptacle to gage the rear edges of cards drawn from the receptacle for delivery to the platen, and transfer-sheet carriage-controlled means for shifting said card-receptacle and. said card-gage out of the path of the transfer-sheet-carriage.

8. In a typewriting machine, in combination, a carriage, a platen mounted in said carriage, a card-receptacle, means for moving the card-receptacle automatically at predetermined stages in the operation of the machine to and from a position to deliver a card to the platen, and a card-gage attached to the card-receptacle to gage the trailing end of the card delivered from said receptacle to the platen.

JEREMIAH J. SHEEHY.

Witnesses:

JENNIE P. THORNE, CATHERINE A. Nnwnmi. 

